Blackbeard Fire Quotes & Sayings

project sought to establish a language that would enable the world to be comprehended in its totality. The name of this system of significations varied with context: sometimes it was called Reason, sometimes History, sometimes Science - but I prefer to call it Westernese. For this language game arose from extrapolating a very specific reading of the West and projecting it into the future as the destiny of the planet. — Salman Sayyid

The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did. — Alice Munro

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself. — Pico Iyer

Every one of us living on this planet is an Other in the view of Others - I am in their view, and they are in mine. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar. — Maya Corrigan

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible. — Elle Schneider